Center for Great Plains Studies awards book prize

Thursday

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A book of photos and complementary essays about Great Plains has won the Distinguished Book Prize from the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The center chose to honor "Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild," which contained photos and firsthand accounts by Michael Forsberg. Essays by Dan O'Brien and David Wishart were included, and the foreword was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Ted Kooser.

Forsberg covered nearly 100,000 miles across 12 states and three provinces, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, to complete the photo work.

The Center for Great Plains Studies is an interdisciplinary, intercollegiate, regional research and teaching program founded in 1976.

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Center for Great Plains Studies: http://www.unl.edu/plains.

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